Re: [PATCH 2/5] ARM: dts: OMAP2+: create a DT header for GPIO

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 05/22/2013 08:27 AM, Florian Vaussard wrote:
> Define the OMAP_GPIO macro to conveniently use GPIO inside OMAP DT.
> For example:
> 
> 	gpios = <&gpio6 3 0>;  /* GPIO 163 */
> 
> can be replaced by
> 
> 	gpios = OMAP_GPIO(163, 0);

> diff --git a/include/dt-bindings/gpio/omap-gpio.h b/include/dt-bindings/gpio/omap-gpio.h

> +#define OMAP_GPIO_0_BANK        gpio1
> +#define OMAP_GPIO_1_BANK        gpio1
> +#define OMAP_GPIO_2_BANK        gpio1
> +#define OMAP_GPIO_3_BANK        gpio1

There are a /lot/ of those. Is this really worth it?

If the OMAP GPIO HW is already represented as a bunch of separate DT
nodes which represent separate GPIO blocks, then I would have thought
the syntax <&gpioN M 0> more directly represents what would be found in
the HW manual? If not, surely the DT should have a single node to
represent a single GPIO controller, which just happens to internally
support a bunch of register arrays.